But I was far more interested in some of the behind-the-scenes goings on, which probably sheds some light on Hillary’s silence. My favorite quotes from today’s New York Times article about the end of Hillary Clinton’s campaign:

Mrs. Clinton’s decision to suspend her campaign, which was first reported by ABC News, was a bow to the emerging political reality. No one in her campaign — including by all reports Mrs. Clinton herself — saw a viable road to the nomination. A suspension of the campaign allows her to continue raising money and pay off millions of dollars in debt.

NO one? MILLIONS of dollars in debt? Ouch.

Representative Rahm Emanuel, the Illinois Democrat with close ties to Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton, and who had kept studiously neutral throughout the fight, said in an interview that he was “coming out from hiding under my desk” to endorse Mr. Obama. “The fact is that he is the nominee,” Mr. Emanuel said

He seemed quizzical at the slowness of Mrs. Clinton’s decision not to acknowledge this.

“You don’t answer about whether you want to be vice president unless there’s no doubt in your mind that he is the nominee,” he said, referring to Mrs. Clinton’s initial reluctance to congratulate Mr. Obama, noting that she told supporters she would be open to be his running mate if he wanted her.

Quizzical? Really? I don’t know, man, if I were the first WHATEVER to run for President, I’d be kind of reluctant to bail, too, if I had any POSSIBLE hope of making a good showing. I don’t think it was necessarily a good or bad choice, and I can’t say with any certainty that I would have done things differently. Aside from the fact that I would never run for President, that is. I mean, I don’t even vote. ANYWAY!

“We pledged to support her to the end,” Representative Charles B. Rangel, a New York Democrat who has been a patron of Mrs. Clinton since she first ran for the Senate, said in an interview. “Our problem is not being able to determine when the hell the end is.”

Sounds like that was EVERYONE’s problem here.

Most interesting to me about this article is that there’s only ONE quote from Hillary Clinton, and it wasn’t even a direct response to her losing the nomination. I find that odd. Do you?

What other articles should we be reading about the Presidential race? Leave your links in the comments.

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